Today more than made up for yesterday.
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| Exmouth |
Glorious weather and no railway problems.
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| Dawlish Warren |
The Dawlish bit was really good in both directions.
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| River Teign |
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| River Plym |
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| River Tamar |
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| St Austel |
but the best was the return journey from SIV to SER. The sands were golden, the sea deep blue and little boats speeding around.
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| St Ives |
Another plus was when a motorway ran alongside the rail line we were scooting past the fastest vehicles who were probably doing over 80mph.
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| Tamar Bridge |
I wasn't expecting meals on todays trains but had a few cakes and a sandwich. One GWR server advised that I could get free booze (wine, beer) on GWR between 5 and 7pm. I changed trains 4:30 but the next one was CrossCountry. A company that, in my opinion, has great difficulty adhering to timetables and catering contracts.
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| CrossCountry train from Plymouth |
They did apologise for the lack of refreshments after every station stop but that just made me thirstier.
My overnight stop was in the Holiday Inn Express opposite the station so I found a Wetherspoons under 10min walk away. It was heaving and I was four times the age of most of the cliantelle. In a sense it was a pity because I'll be staying in two Wetherspoon hotels for a total of six nights during this tour and a little more variety would have been good.
See Day 03
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